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-JBU ^r! The MSC Public Relations Committee Wants YOU! to join its membership. Applications are available through April 13th. Pick yours up at Nancy Adams' desk in the Student Programs Office of the MSC. 4k Questions? 4k Call Nancy at 845-7627 Page 14 The Battalion Prison system inefficient, audit says Search for new criminal justice director may be affecte The Associated Press Off Campus Aggies 4th Annual Parent’s Weekend Golf Classic Saturday, April 16, 1994 Texas A&M University Golf Course 18 Holes/ 2-MAN Scramble Breakfast at Club House Teams arranged in 3 flights by handicaps 1st, 2nd, 3rd place awards given per flight Mulligan specials AH entries must be received by April 13, 1994 For more info., please call the OCA office @ 845-0688 HOUSTON — A critical state audit of the Texas prison system is expected to take agency management to task and could hurt two in- house candidates for the system director’s job, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday. The audit, to he released Thursday, will come down hard on the way the system man ages prison space, unidentified sources told the Chronicle. The report will conclude the state is not us ing all its available prison space for removing convicts from crowded county jails. It also will recommend steps for using many of the 6,000 prison beds that officials have acknowledged are empty, the newspaper says. The prison system has Named the unused beds on restrictions in a federal court order that ended a 20-year prison reform lawsuit. Spokesmen for Comptroller John Sharp, who spent a year studying the agency at the request of the board and Gov. Ann Richards, would not comment on audit details in the Chronicle story. As prison officials await the audit, their fo cus steers on the selection of a new Texas De partment of Criminal Justice director. Two of the three finalists to be interviewed Sunday by the Board of Criminal Justice are in- house picks. Their prospects could be affected by the audit’s findings. The board is seelcing a successor to James Lynaugh, who resigned in September. The agency has 26,000 employees and an annual operating budget of more than $1.5 billion. Board Chairman Carol Vance of Houston an nounced Tuesday the three finalists for executive director are Andy Collins, the prison director; R. Carl Jeffries, the agency’s deputy directorfoi|! gram services; and K. Gary Sherman, direct: the Wyoming Department of Family Services, One hoard member, who requts anonymity, said the real race washes Collins and Jeffries. IVol. 93 Sources told the newspaper Collins mayt a slight edge on the nine-member board! also faced stiff opposition from some meir4 which could worsen after the audit is release; Richards’ chief of staff, John Fainter, said! | was sure the audit "will impact their (pr® and parole board) decision process.” "One thing they (board members) wan: see is what it (the audit) says and where theo cism is pointed,” Fainter said. “1 think it _ he unfair to prejudge it. I think it’s beenapH^ 6 is i idea for the board ter wait for this report” The Assc is of 1.8 mill rael for Menendez brothers turn to state for legal fund les eve | The c Islamic duding The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Taxpayers will pay Erik Menendez’s lawyer 25,000 to defend him at his re trial on murder charges. "I think tire public has benefit ed and hopefully Mr. Menendez has benefited and we can go for ward,” Superior Court Judge Cecil Mills said Tuesday after a hearing on the payment dispute. Erik, 23, and brother Lyle, 26, are charged with murdering par ents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion on Aug. 20, 1989. Their first trial ended with each defendant’s jury deadlocked. Lawyer Leslie Abramson origi nally asked the judge to have tax payers pay her $ 1 00 per hour, up to $250,000, for Erik Menendez’s retrial because the brothers have run out of money. The judge rejected the request, saying she was bound to defend him again under terms of her first contract, which she said paid her $650,000 over four years. "Everybody compromised and that’s the best way to resolve issues,” Abramson said outside court. Lyle Menendez’s lawyer id fou not to represent him at hisrtslP °P ei Public defenders have takenhisi ^ sr “ Mills said Abramson taxpayers money because sheisl miliar with the case andcanrj forward quickly. The judge made his offer4 five other prominent defti lawyers testified that Abram request was not unusual. pf | The Ass AUS” .bailers could ■buSi s s 1-800-C0LLECT SAVHH1 People YOU CA11 UP tp 44% USE IT EVERY TIME YOU MANE A LONG OISTANCE COLLECT CALL. r • • is of be face prison tillih Dai 1 ■The inlTues' 1! The for beatings FORT WORTH (AP) - ca ] S tre: jailers face up to lOyeanjary prison on civil rights charjew Neit oeating two pr isr 'iiers. welfare Todd Hamilton, 32, and/ Matt Motes. II, have |u eu indk:-.’; Fisher, thud-degree felony iharyo tdulgin; u ntionally and unlawfully inlkBpish mg bodily injury on prisoner the Tarrant County Jail. Motes is accused of strikirif mate Tony Blacklock in the I with his hand and kicking! the head during a Nov. ISsaiif 10-sto Hamilton is accused of sip ho vi BLu khu k in the head wilt “1 , hand. A jail supervisor saidfy “Tm ; lock was beaten beyttfUr 1 niade non broth Tb e indictment also a/ .. Ma Hamiln ;eparate Oct l lator, dent of striking inmate in the!> feat to In Mandela Ross P He quired 5x ea s u (Continued from bagel pj s j election. He spoke two dayskjwhich fore a key meeting Friday will Sin< Buthelezi and Zulu King Goodwfphoney Zwelithini, who oppose the vfil Dm and demand changes in the coi: $1.6 r try’s new constitution to guaffif Ma tee self-determination for the igar, R- million Zulus. Fisl Conservatives whites also re he say newed calls for a delay Wednee:.: Ma saying there should be morerCount: gotiations on their demands fot! attack: separate state for whites. "Let me tell you, there will! no postponement of the electioi either in the province of Nataldi in any section of the territory Natal,” Mandela declared to boi: terous cheers from the audien C arn . of about 800 youths and chantso:p ,. “ANC, ANC, ANC!” | lc ‘‘We will not postponed freedom, because to postponetl election means that we shou postpone our freedom.” The ANC leader said he is “fit of hope” going into the stimuli with Buthelezi and Zwelithini. If Klerk is also to attend. Mandela said he would he separate two-hour meeting the king on Friday to reassure his monarchy would not be periled by the ANC-led coalition government likely to emerge f the elections. A de Klerk adviser, Chris mer, told the Durban Daily f tliat de Klerk also will oppos f postponing the ballot in Natal, b : Fri lieving it would only addtoinsti- Scl lieving it would only bility in the region by encouraf ing those fomenting the violence Mandela indicated the Soul African security forces could prO' vide enough muscle to ensure elections in Natal proceed. A committee representing South African government,' nationalists and the Jndependen 1 Electoral Commission, which i organizing national elections Apn> 26-28, concluded Tuesday it not possible at present to holdfai 1 elections in Natal. The report cited the high lew of political intolerance and feat large-scale intimidation; the fail ure of KwaZulu authorities to as sist in free and fair elections; and the inability of South African po lice to protect the entire region during elections. The province is mainly Zulu and roughly split between ANf and Inkath £ By Th eye )Us dif do: ha] the Sat V Cha for 9k Oh A las: fpc ta supporters. r titi